The U.K.’s top court ruled Friday that a group of former drivers for Uber Technologies Inc. were entitled to minimum wage and other benefits while working for the company, dealing a setback to Uber and other gig-economy firms in battles world-wide over their employment model.
The Supreme Court upheld lower court decisions that granted the group of 25 drivers a type of U.K. employment status at Uber. The company had appealed those rulings, maintaining that its car-service and food-delivery drivers are independent contractors, without employee rights.
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